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How a Minecraft world has built a safe online playground for autistic kids

  • Written by: Kathryn Ringland, Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
How a Minecraft world has built a safe online playground for autistic kidsKathryn Ringland, Author provided

For autistic children, online social interactions can be just as fraught as those in the offline world. The community at Autcraft, which is built around a customised version of the popular game Minecraft, has set out to create a safe virtual playground.

In the process, they may be demonstrating the kind of...

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composition for video gaming draws on tradition and tech

  • Written by: Dan Golding, Senior lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology
composition for video gaming draws on tradition and techMusical scores for video game play utilise some traditional elements of composition but apply the latest technology. www.shutterstock.com

The product of hundreds of years of musical and storytelling tradition married to computer technology, video game music has gone from a technological curio to something vitally creative. Next week in Melbourne,...

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Australia isn't taking the national security threat from far-right extremism seriously enough

  • Written by: Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
Australia isn't taking the national security threat from far-right extremism seriously enoughThe Christchurch attack is a clear signal we need to change our approach to both hateful extremism and toxic political discourse in Australia.David Alexander/AAP

This is part of a new series looking at the national security challenges facing Australia, how our leaders are responding to them through legislation and how these measures are impacting...

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When big companies fund academic research, the truth often comes last

  • Written by: Lisa Bero, Chair professor, University of Sydney
When big companies fund academic research, the truth often comes lastIndustry funders can go to great lengths to suppress the findings of academic research when it's not favourable to the company.from shutterstock.com

This article is part of a series on academic freedom where leading academics from around the world write on the state of free speech and inquiry in their region.


Over the last two decades, industry...

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  2. Here's what happened when codeine was made prescription only. No, the sky didn't fall in
  3. Just because both sides support drought relief, doesn’t mean it's right
  4. Tim Watts on Australia's changing identity
  5. ranitidine, the heartburn medicine being recalled because of cancer-causing contamination
  6. can controversial athletes sell a sport or are they bad for the business?
  7. the rise and fall of an Australian advertising empire
  8. Australia's digital competitiveness is slipping. Here's how we can catch up
  9. What's made of legumes but sizzles on the barbie like beef? Australia's new meat alternative
  10. How China is legally recognising same-sex couples, but not empowering them
  11. Australia's quest for national security is undermining the courts and could lead to secretive trials
  12. Paul Hogan and the myth of the white Aussie bloke
  13. Does your mental state affect recovery from illness and disease? We asked five experts
  14. politicians use it to discredit media, and journalists need to fight back
  15. China's military might is much closer to the US than you probably think
  16. what each of us can do to reduce our carbon footprint
  17. Feeling flight shame? Try quitting air travel and catch a sail boat
  18. The UK Labour Party wants to abolish private schools – could we do that in Australia?
  19. Another Australian PM finds a phone call with Trump can land you on the sticky paper
  20. 0.75% is a record low, but don't think for a second the Reserve Bank has finished cutting the cash rate
  21. control of the global computer-chip industry
  22. Is there such thing as an addictive personality?
  23. experimental Australian films as poetic diary entries
  24. Winter storms are speeding up the loss of Arctic sea ice
  25. how do scientists know evolution is real?
  26. Tens of thousands of tuna-attracting devices are drifting around the Pacific
  27. Fiji’s ancient hill forts and what we can learn from them
  28. Gonski’s vision of 'personalised learning' will stifle creativity and lead to a generation of automatons
  29. a plan to solve our shortage of cemetery space
  30. With no end in sight and the world losing interest, the Hong Kong protesters need a new script
  31. 1 in 3 young adults are lonely – and it affects their mental health
  32. Any prosecution of journalists for national security offences to require attorney-general's approval
  33. The AFL sells an inclusive image of itself. But when it comes to race and gender, it still has a way to go
  34. which is smarter – a blue whale or an orca?
  35. Back to Back Theatre's exciting reframing of disability
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  37. How to turn Auckland's inner city streets into public spaces people can enjoy
  38. 'Developing' rift points to growing divisions between Coalition and Labor on China
  39. Disability and single parenthood still loom large in inherited poverty
  40. 6 ways to stop daylight saving derailing your child’s sleep
  41. What fictional superheroes can tell us about devotion and why we believe in gods
  42. Australia has enacted 82 anti-terror laws since 2001. But tough laws alone won’t make us safer
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